David Healy
David Healy
David Jonathan Healy, MBEis a Northern Irish former footballer and now football manager who is in charge at NIFL Premiership club Linfield...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth5 August 1979
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Hertz has become less and less important as an outlet for Ford cars as Ford has pared back sales to Hertz and other daily rental companies. It's really a noncore business right now.
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Hertz has become kind of a noncore operation for them, a much less important outlet.
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Truck-based models cost less for U.S. car markers to produce because they already have all the parts developed for their truck business. These truck-based SUVs have been the most profitable segment for Detroit in recent years, so developing new car-based models will eat into margins.
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It's a moderate plus to their finances. Hertz has become kind of a noncore operation for them, a much less important outlet.
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It's more trouble for the suppliers. Partly, it's a reflection of the fact that Ford and GM are shrinking to reckon with lower market share. And so there's less business to go around for the suppliers.
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It's one of the reasons why GM will lose less money in 2006.
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The passenger cars are not inherently as profitable as big SUVs or big pickups, but they have to refurbish their car line, even if it doesn't get them back to historical profit margins,
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We did not play great but the main thing is that we won,
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You have to praise their sense of realism, that they'll never get to a 25 percent share again. They have got to do this to survive.
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You have an earnings penalty and a cash benefit, neither of which is overwhelming.
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With GM, I think overall you'll be looking at a 9 percent increase in October this year versus October last year in GM's light truck sales, and I think that their SUV sales will show an increase at least that big year over year. That's the good news.
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To me it was a foregone conclusion because the union and the company had already agreed to it.
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While the (health-care) deal is a positive, they have several other challenges. They are losing too much market share. They have too many plants, too many people and too many models.
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What GM is talking about in my book are not hybrids. These are trucks with humongous starter motors.